Religion: Too Material

Sandy-haired Emmett McLoughlin was born down by the railroad tracks in
Sacramento. His Irish father & mother hoped he would become a priest.
Emmett went from parochial school to seminary and was ordained priest
in the Franciscan Order in 1933. The next year, he was assigned to
Phoenix, Ariz.

Soon young Father McLoughlin began to be almost as well-known in Phoenix
as the mayor. He organized a slum clearance campaign and wangled
federal funds for three major housing projects. He started a church for
poor people in a vacant store. Then he began to crusade for a hospital
for the poor. He...